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We spent the afternoon cleaning up around the patio and putting up the sunshade on our pergola. By the afternoon some friends stopped by and we decide to burn some steaks on the grill. I got the steaks out, the charcoal, all the fixings and;
BEHOLD
No matches or lighter in the entire crowd. Now as a would be bushcrafter I have at least 8 different ways to make fire at any given time including magnifying glass, fire piston, fire steels, flint and steel, various friction devices, ect.
It amazed me that I could not find a simple match or lighter in my home. I went out to my truck and grabbed my ziplock bag filled with dry toilet paper and a Light My Fire Swedish firesteel. When I came back in the yard my wife and several friends were gathered around the grill waiting for the show. I had my charcoal prepared complete with Boy Scout juice drenching so all I had to do was to drape the scraper with a small piece of toilet paper and strike the rod.
With an audience I said a silent prayer and struck the rod. Instantly the paper ignited like it had so many times before but instead of burning my fingers like it usually does it flew off of the striker landing right on top of the charcoal.
Instant inferno!!
From the response you would have thought I had mastered cold fusion. Over the next few minutes my wife and friends all had to try the setup. I could have sold half a dozen firesteels tonight.
Lovely when a plan comes together.
Of course I had to run and get my coco bolo fire piston and make a fire in the chimenea. Some of them are still stratching thier heads over how that thing works.
My title of LORD OF FIRE is safe for now.
LOL
BEHOLD
No matches or lighter in the entire crowd. Now as a would be bushcrafter I have at least 8 different ways to make fire at any given time including magnifying glass, fire piston, fire steels, flint and steel, various friction devices, ect.
It amazed me that I could not find a simple match or lighter in my home. I went out to my truck and grabbed my ziplock bag filled with dry toilet paper and a Light My Fire Swedish firesteel. When I came back in the yard my wife and several friends were gathered around the grill waiting for the show. I had my charcoal prepared complete with Boy Scout juice drenching so all I had to do was to drape the scraper with a small piece of toilet paper and strike the rod.
With an audience I said a silent prayer and struck the rod. Instantly the paper ignited like it had so many times before but instead of burning my fingers like it usually does it flew off of the striker landing right on top of the charcoal.
Instant inferno!!
From the response you would have thought I had mastered cold fusion. Over the next few minutes my wife and friends all had to try the setup. I could have sold half a dozen firesteels tonight.
Lovely when a plan comes together.
Of course I had to run and get my coco bolo fire piston and make a fire in the chimenea. Some of them are still stratching thier heads over how that thing works.
My title of LORD OF FIRE is safe for now.
LOL
Seems no one in my family knew that corn chips burned so well.